The turkey that attacked a mail truck in Centerville last week may have a Kennedy connection.

"It was my turkey," Ethel Kennedy said in a phone conversation with the Times on Wednesday.

If Kennedy's fowl hypothesis is correct, events leading to the mail-truck misadventure were set in motion when the Kennedy clan gathered in Hyannisport at Thanksgiving.

Watch this video of the turkey as it attacks a postal truck in Centerville:

"I wanted the grandchildren to know what a live turkey looked like," said Kennedy, who was calling from Florida. "I asked Bobby (son Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) to go to a turkey farm and get one black one and one white one."

But trouble began to gobble shortly after the birds arrived in Hyannisport. Kennedy said her son opened the car door and the black turkey immediately escaped.

"The grandchildren were thrilled," Kennedy said. "For three days, they chased it everywhere." But the wayward turkey eluded the Kennedy posse.

Case closed? Maybe not.

Last week, a bird fitting the description of the Kennedy turkey (black, with a red wattle) was seen throwing itself at a moving mail truck in a Centerville neighborhood — about two miles from the Kennedy compound.

Coincidence? Ethel Kennedy thinks not.

"It's our bird," she said. "He's aggressive and he knows how to escape."